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Secretive Quotes (page 48)

Amy Tan quote: "What is a secret wish?"It is what you want but cannot ask."
What is a secret wish?"It is what you want but cannot ask. Amy Tan
If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face. Derek Jarman
That having sex with someone you do not care for feels lonelier than not having sex in the first place, afterward. That it is permissible to want. That everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse. That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels. That God? unless you're Charlton Heston, or unhinged, or both? speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of... David Foster Wallace
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. F. Scott Fitzgerald
With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child, he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace. Herman Hesse
Stephen King quote: "The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over..."
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. Stephen King
A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virute is concerned, "Experience is the mother of illusion. C. S. Lewis
Khalil Gibran quote: "Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling..."
Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees. Khalil Gibran
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. John Steinbeck
Rumi quote: "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to..."
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. Rumi
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our own hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. John Steinbeck
Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills. The whole great day, and bright. The tiny world of lovers' arms. Silence invades the breathing wood. Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep, Now greenly falls the learned shade. Across the sleeping brows. And stirs their secret to a smile. Restored! Returned! The lost are borne. On seas of shipwreck home at last: See! In a fire of praising burns. The dry dumb past, and we. Our life-day long... W. H. Auden
Anais Nin quote: "The secret of joy is the mastery of pain."
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. Anais Nin
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation. Edith Wharton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand..."
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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